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Sicilia Fae:
Twisted ~ This problem is why I have had Six wounded as badly as he has, and if you look, most of the damage he has sustained afterwards has been due to surprises he couldn't have known about. Aura stopping attacks, shifting weapons, tails… That sort of thing. Think of it like this: Six fought an unknown that could outmaneuver him, he didn't know what would actually wound him after he struck Tyrian the first time and he shrugged it off, and so on. I have tried not to nerf him as much as possible.
Dashing Rogue:
Twisted ~ I wouldn't change Six that much. I am more… exposing faults I see in every character. Ruby and Six included.
Super Saiyan Vegeta:
Twisted ~ See the above, plox.
Gizmo Gear:
Twisted ~ Ironwood has Aura already and his implants and prosthetics were made on Remnant. Stands to reason testing and fielding procedures would have been put in place for Hunters and the like to get these sorts of implants and prosthetics.
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The Spartan saw Ren run in, sitting at the base of the tree with his rifle
laid across his chest and ears open for another of those strange shrieks. Jaune turned to look at Ren. "Ren? What was that sound? Are you okay?" He saw the young blonde relax slightly when he spotted Nora rounding a corner, and relaxed himself slightly before he saw Ren sink to the ground.
"Ren? What's wrong?" Another of the loud screams echoed around them and Ruby started muttering to herself. "What is that sound? A Grimm of some kind, maybe? I've never heard anything like it…"
"I have." Six said quietly, rising slowly and stiffly, tucking the rifle closer against his chest and flexing his fingers on the grip at its front, "Sounds like…" 'A Banshee, kind of…' He cut himself off, grimacing at the almost slip of the tongue. He could feel the toxin slowing his bodily reactions, but he hadn't realized that it was affecting his mental faculties as well.
He could compensate. He'd suffered worse handicaps.
The next shriek sounded even closer. Qrow ran into the town and pulled Ren to his feet, practically shoving Ren towards the group, then turning and raising his blade defensively. A massive black arm slammed into Qrow, sending him flying into a graceless landing. "Big bastard, hard to hurt," Qrow growled. "Couldn't even slow it down on my own." He looked over his shoulder, his eyes meeting Six's visor, "Impossible to fight, but you're used to that."
"Uncle Qrow, he can't… fight…" Ruby trailed off, and Six could understand why. The creature came into view, undulating, and its head snapped around to look at them. Even Six flinched slightly at the horror's stare, and Ruby visibly shuddered slightly, "What is that…?"
"Nuckelavee." Qrow grunted, his blade shifting form into a long-handled scythe and the man sliding into a fighting stance, the blade's back nearly touch the ground and the curve of it facing the sky, "Tough bastards, these guys. Slightly regenerative, so you can't whittle them down. Damn smart too, so you kids better watch out."
"That means you'll let us help you, right?" Ruby asked quietly, the creature lumbering towards them while Nora shook Ren's shoulder to bring him back into the moment. Qrow nodded, and she raised her scythe high.
The creature hissed, watching them spread out around it without seeming to care. Ruby was on its right flank, Qrow on its left, Nora in front of it and Ren behind it with Jaune. Six stood back slightly, rifle leveled on its chest. Still, the creature seemed apathetic. It turned its head slowly, almost appraisingly, towards the people surrounding it, and made a low hissing noise. The horse head whinnied, almost like a laugh, and it turned to look at Ren more fully. It turned again, and its eyes lingered on Six when he tried to step to the side and his wounded leg made him stagger in an almost hungry way. He'd felt like a meal in a can once, when Brutes had surrounded him and thought him beaten.
He had that feeling again, and flexed his grip on the rifle lightly on instinct.
It shrieked and turned, both clawed hands lunging out, trying to strike at Ren and Six. The former jumped over the attack, while the latter stepped out of the way. Six raised the rifle and fired a burst, the bullets slamming in a cluster on its torso, and the creature shrieked not because of pain, but in anger. The arm whipped back, sweeping under the Spartan's legs and throwing him to his back. Six sat up quickly, firing three round bursts as he struggled upward. The thing snarled and made to charge, but Qrow and Jaune both dug their weapons into its sides.
The Nuckelavee turned to deal with the flankers, whipping its arms to the side and knocking them away, hissing and snarling viciously. Jaune slammed into a building and sank into a crouch, while Qrow rolled across the ground before coming up on his knees. Nora charged in with a hammer held high, and it plucked her from the ground and flung her into Ren in one easy motion, the duo collapsing in a pile of limbs and weapons.
Six emptied the rest of his clip into the creature's horse-head, and it roared, throwing both of it's its arms at him. He ducked under the first, but the second caught him around his bad leg and squeezed before pulling him from the ground, spinning him around and slamming him into the stone floor. The stones cracked as he felt his ribs do the same, but the creature wasn't done. Its other arm wrapped around his chest and lifted him again, throwing him bodily into the small tower behind him hard enough to knock the building down on top of the Spartan.
A slab of wall landed on the Spartan's back, and he struggled upwards with the weight on him, "Dot, analysis."
"Four broken ribs, along with prior wounds and rapidly rising blood toxicity. Official recommendation: Withdraw from combat." After a second, Dot continued when he pulled himself out from under the building and lay on his back, chest burning and sweating furiously, "Enemy analysis: Weapons, ineffective. Tactics, ineffective as deployed. Recommend overwhelming force of firepower. Available equipment, ineffective for tactics needed."
"Revise, include Nora's grenades." He ordered, staggering upright and drawing his magnum. He didn't know where his rifle was, so he'd have to make do. As always. He pressed a hand against his side, and it came away violet. Not a good sign, to be sure. Then his eyes fell on his grenade. "Belay that, I have my own plan."
Qrow was slammed into a wall, and ducked under a clawed arm as the creature's entire torso spun impossibly, and Six almost rolled his eyes at it. The Huntsmen took one look at Six's side, the bandages slowly purpling on his leg and stomach, and shook his head, "Go sit the hell down, Spartan. Poison's killin' you, and I'm not putting that on anyone else's conscience."
"I have a plan," Six said, raising the grenade pointedly, "Explosives might be able to stick it in place long enough for you to land some more considerable damage on it."
"We could collapse something on it, that should keep it down long enough. Maybe." Qrow grumbled to himself a couple times before shaking his head and calling out. "Nora! Ruby! Lure it to a building so we can pin it down!" He looked at the Spartan again, "You go find a hiding place, you can't keep fighting."
"I'm still combat effective" Six tried to argue, but Qrow just rolled his eyes. "I'm going to fight, you need to accept it," Six pressed. "There's no time to argue."
Qrow watched Nora and Ruby harrying its front for a few seconds before going to join them, ignoring the Spartan. Six sighed tiredly, weighing the grenade in his hands for a moment before speaking to Dot, "Toxicity levels?"
"High." She answered quietly, voice almost sad while the two watched as Nora and Ruby tried their hardest to force the Nuckelavee towards one of the tallest buildings still standing. Jaune charged forwards, slamming his shield into its flank in an attempt to knock it back. The Nuclevee's arm whipped down and plucked him, hurling him bodily into the ground hard enough that he bounced across the old stone. The Knight climbed to one knee, panting and using his sword to try and support himself. He managed to stand just before the creature threw Ren at him, collapsing the blonde under the weight of his friend while they tried to untangle their limbs. "They are not strong enough to shift the creature, Noble Six. It's too large."
"And what about me?" He asked, setting the grenade on his hip and checking the magazine on his Magnum, "Do I have enough in me to get it in position?"
"The odds are slim, Noble Six." She said quietly again, "You'd need a large margin of luck to have a chance of succeeding. Given the information Qrow offered..."
"Anything with luck involved will fail." He said, nodding and reaching up to draw his knife, "I have another plan."
He pressed a hand to his side again, palm coming away stained in purple and looked down at his body. The bandages on his leg and stomach were stained, a mixture of red and purple turning them almost black, and he could feel his leg give when he put too much weight on it. Distantly, he could feel the pangs of pain in his leg and chest, enough there to overcome the pain stoppers that had been integrated into his body. His body was failing, he was down to two magazines for his Magnum, and his knife was chipped along the edge.
It'd have to do.
He watched Nora's hammer slam into the creature's side, and it buckled. The back leg slammed into her chest and hurled her away, pink sparking around her body when she it the ground. Six remembered Tyrian, and could guess at what that meant. So he charged in, rushing past Ruby and slamming his shoulder into the beast and rolling under it, the creature's claws scrabbling against stone in an effort to follow him under the horse-body. He leapt onto its back, using its spikes to haul himself onto its back and burying his knife to the hilt in the side of the human-like torso where it met the horse.
It hissed, arms whipping around and a single claw burying into his back just under the armored plate. He grunted, holding on when the creature hooked the finger under the armor and inside his flesh to try to pull him off. When he started sawing into its body, it started kicking angrily and bucking, trying to throw him off. When he'd gouged deep enough, he let the knife drop and fished out his grenade, arming it and burying it inside the creature's body.
Then he let go, and the Nuckelavee flung him into the air with a roar and a hiss. He slammed into the lone tree at the center of the town's ruins, crunching through the bark and into the ground with the wooden thing on top of him. Staring at the sky, he heard the grenade go off and the Nuckelavee fall silent.
Ruby was leaning over him almost instantly, petals flying past her, "Six! You're bleeding!"
He chuckled dryly and passed out.
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